Revolving cotton-box



(No Model.)

- C. C. GONNELL & J. B. VJOHNSON.

REVOLVING GOTTUN BOX.

Patented Peb. 18, 1890.

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JOSEPH E. JOHNSON, OF MOUNT VERNON, ARKANSAS.

REVOLVING COTTO N BOX.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,554, dated February 18, 1890.

Application led July 3, 1889. SerialNm 316.458. (No model.) y

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that we, CHRISTOPHER COLUi BUS OONNELLand JOSEPH BEDLES JOHNSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Faulkner and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Cotton-Boxes; and we do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exa-ct description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac-y companying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our inventionhas relation to double baleboxes and mechanism for operating the same. The boxes are made and arranged so as to revolve around, and while one is under the screw or press power the other stands in front of the gin and condenser to receive the cotton from the gin and made to lill while the bale-hands press, bind, and take the bale from the other box.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of our invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the base part eut through on the `line Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the swinging frame holding the two boxes. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views, and Fig. 7 isatop plan view of the base of the swinging frame.

Our invention is described as follows:

The base A is composed of a strong frame consisting of the end pieces' aand side pieces a', of sufficient thickness to support a floor a2, sufliciently strong to bear the weight of the swinging frame C, the boxes E, and the mechanism designed to operate the same.

so that one open end can be set near the re ceiver, while the other open end stands ydirectly o from the same, through which the packed bale of cotton can roll Off and out of the way, and a cross-beam b2, either end of which is secured in the side beams at their middle. Said beam b2 has through its middle a perforation, in which is fitted aflanged socket b3.

The swinging frame C is composed of a base-frame, having the side pieces c, crosspieces c, and a perforated center piece c2. On the top of said base are securedy eight posts c3, braced and secured together by the crosspieces c4 and the top beams c5. Across said top beams is secured a perforated center cross-beam c6. On the top of said base and between the said side posts is secured a substantial iloor or bottom D for the cottonboXes, and in either end of said frame C, resting against the inner faces of the said posts and cross-beams just described, are secured cotton-boxes -E, with room enough between their lower ends and the bottom D to insert proper bale-doors.

Through the perfor-ations of the perforated center pieces c2 and c6 is a cylindrical rod F, on which said revolving frame is secured, the lower end of the said rod being threaded and a nut f working on said rod and screwed down tight against the upper face of the floorbottom D, and a nut f working on said rod and countersunk in the cavity fg'in the upper face of the floor c2. These two nuts operating together serve the two purposes of tightly securing the revolving frame to said rod and adjusting it to the proper height above the base A. The upper end of saidrod F is pivoted or journaled inthe flanged socket b3, which is vsecnredin the perforation in the middle of the cross-beam b2.

To the under face of the iioor a2 is hinged, by means of the staple and hasp g, alever Gr, on the upper face and near the center of which is secured a cup g', Fig. 6, in which rests the lower end of the cylindrical rod F. Said lever F is supported near its forward end by the cross-piece g2 of the U-shaped bolt g3, the arms of which pass down through the iioor a2. To the extreme end of said lever G is secured another U-shaped bolt g4.

In the middle of the front piece Of the brace A is an .opening as, more than large enough to receive the end of the lever H, and near the base of said opening is a cross-rod 71., which may be called a fnlcrum-rod, on which the said lever H rests, its notch h restpressed, we bear down on the outer end ofr the lever H. This raises the free end of the lever G, which raises the rod F, and consequently the revolving frame B, when it may I5 be swung around until the empty box is in position to receive the lint-cotton and the filled box is under the screw or pressing power. Then by easing up on the lever H the said revolving frame is let down gently until 2o it is again flat down on the base A. 'lhen the cotton is pressed into a bale and rolled away,

and while this is being done the empty box is bein g iilled. Then the frame is again raised and the iilled box swung around to the pressing-power and let down as before. Thus it will be seen that no time is wasted and the necessity of a lint-room is done away with.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 3o Patent, is-

l. The combination, in a revolving double baling device, of the base A, provided with the opening a and fulcrum-rod 7L, lever G, hinged under the bottom of said base, U-

3 5 shaped bolt g3, and cross-piece g2, bearing the free end of said lever, lever H, fulcruined on the rod h, and adjusted toperate the lever G, rod F, bearing the revolving frame C, and

nframe B, in which the upper end of said rod 4o F is journaled, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a revolving double baling device, of the base A, provided with the opening a3 and fulcrum-rod h, lever G,

hinged under the bottom of said base, cup g', secured in the upper face of said lever, U-shaped bolt g3, and cross-piece g2, bearing the free end of said lever, lever H, its inner end resting in U-shaped bolt g", and its iniddle fulcrumed on rod h, rod F, bearing the revolving frame C, and frame B, in which the upper end of rod F is journaled, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a baling device, substantially as shown and described, the combination of the revolving frame C, bearing the boxes E, the rod F, secured in the center of said frame and supported by a substantial frame-work, nuts f f working on the lower and threaded end of said rod and against the upper and lower faces of said frame, the lower end of said rod socketed in the lever G, operated by the lever II, all substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination of the base-frame A, consisting of the end pieces a, side a', and iioor d2, and having in its front side piece the opening a, and secured to the base of said opening a fulcrum-rod h, frame B, consisting of the corner-posts Z), side beams b', and perforated center cross-piece b2, having secured in its center flanged thimblc b3, the revolving frame C, consisting of the base having the side pieces c, cross-pieces c ,and perforated center piece c2, upright posts c3, crossbeams c4, side beams c5, and perforated center cross-beam c6, bearing the baling-boxcs E, cylindrical rod F, passing down through the perforation of said cross-pieces b2, c6, and c2,

` and its lower end resting in the cup g', se-

curing and adjustable nuts working on the threaded end of said rod, lever G, hinged to the lower face of the iioor of the base A, and bearing in its cup g the lower end of said rod, its free ends secured by the U- shaped bolt g3 and lever H, fulcrumed 011 the rod 71., its short end passing through the openingvinto said base and into the U-shaped bolt g4, secured to the extreme end of the .lever G, all substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

C. C. CONN ELL. J. B. JOHNSON. Vitnesses:

II. Il. DAVIS, J. II. WARDEN. 

